Gallerucida Motschulsky

Diagnosis. Body oblong, stout, convex, fairly broad, 5-12 mm long, glabrous. Antennae vary from filiform to stout and flat, sometimes moderately serrate. Pronotum broader than long, anterior margin bordered, all pronotal angles with seta-bearing pore. Elytra with punctation confused to semiregular double rows. Mesosternum largely covered by anterior edge of metasternum. Posterior tibia with minute apical spine. Claws appendiculate.

Doryida Baly, Doryidomorpha Laboissière, Haemodoryida Chen and Laphris Baly resemble Gallerucida in having the mesosternum covered by the anterior edge of metasternum. However, Doryida, Doryidomorpha and Haemodoryida can easily be differentiated by the absence of metatibial spine, which is present in Gallerucida . Laphris is distinct with the third antennomere about four times longer than the second (second antennomere is not shorter than half of third in Gallerucida).